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I don't give a fuck about your skin tone or sexual preference

Just a friendly heads-up, the phrase "sexual preference" is like fingernails on a chalkboard to a lot of people, as the word "preference" implies choice which isn't in line with our best understanding of how sexual orientation works.

I'm not offended, but I'm guessing you don't want to accidentally offend people. After all, you don't give a fuck.
If anyone has tips on how to effectively promote using Social Media Marketing WITHOUT spamming I am all ears!
Why only Southwest? Do other airlines not allow this?

Also, are you using some API or a more "primitive" method?
only in the valley will people take you seriously when you're telling them you wanna go to the moon...
Vayable (YC S12) is hiring engineers and designers who love travel
Veterans of Hacker News - why am I not allowed to down vote?
"If you live in certain parts of the world, like France, Spain, China, Italy, or Germany, you already are familiar with the joys of having an extensive bike-sharing system readily available. North America is slowly catching on, with cities like Boston, Washington, D.C., and New York City gradually rolling out bike-share systems. "

Or, you know, Canada, where Bixi developed the system that now powers Boston's, D.C.'s, and NYC's shares.
That would be an interesting future. Go to a bar at night (dropped off by your robocar/house). Get really drunk. Get picked up by your robocar/house. Wake up really hungover, shower, change and then walk out of your robocar/house that is parked right in front of your office. Go to work. Not sure why this was the first thing that came to my mind, but it would be pretty damn cool.
There are hundreds to thousands of Southwest flights every day. Chances of collisions are small and even if they happen each person is still better off than if he/she had not used the site.

This isn't meant to be a "take over the world business", it's just a little app I built that I thought I should share with my friends and anyone who wants to benefit from it :)
Late to market. The myriad of religious institutions have it cornered.
It's great to see Chris write this up.

It's always refreshing to see someone explore the work of those who have had similar concerns or solved similar problems. Whether they have independently chosen a similar direction or are standing on the shoulders.

Provides a good reference for new comers wanting to understand what approaches have been explored before.

We live in exciting times. The confusion of (programming) tongues is in full swing; the CPU clock wall is with us; high level features such as closures and GC now have fairly efficient implementations - it seems there are now enough transistors to deliver much of the abstraction that was envisioned by the founders but gave way to pragmatic concerns in the early microcomputer era.

I am looking forward to IDEs that manage and simplify complexity, and hardware ISAs that throw a few more transistors at things like STM, tagged data and memory management.

I can see a future where I can edit code in a language foreign to me, but see an instant side-by-side (editable) version in a dialect I'm more comfortable with. Switch in another view and drag and drop states in my state machine via direct manipulation, and so forth.
Betting this will be down within 72 hours. I know a guy who did this years ago. The letter he got was not so polite (but I love it!). I don't think they ban them for the money, I think it is to make sure humans are doing the work because it shows real intent to make your flight. Their overbooking algorithms don't work so well otherwise...
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"Because anyone who can't do this almost certainly doesn't have the ability to program any software system well, some shitty web app or otherwise. You're not trying to fill out a remedial CS course in community college, you're trying to get someone to program real things real people use."

So...I'm hiring someone that can reverse a string because this demonstrates that they can program real things that real people use?

"And yes I've hired people and all of them have had to answer much more complex algorithmic questions to get the job and all of them turned out to be competent."

Out of interest, what did this job entail? I assume that you quizzed them on their knowledge of basic algorithms because they are required to write them, right?
I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that what this discussion needs is a "Hey - thanks for making this."
It is so easy and dangerous to mess up setting the firewall from scratch, why mess with it.

Use the free, awesome CSF (configserver firewall) instead.

http://www.configserver.com/cp/csf.html
I think that those are taken out even before they release the check ins to the public.
Thanks, interesting option,
how long did it take you to finish by the way? is it open source?
Nice. Didn't know about this.
thanks, I was too lazy to look it up.
the dig at the stock price is so ridiculous. i mean, yes it's dropped since the IPO, but it's still valued at over USD 40B. which is a lot.
ignorant and stupid by dressing like a clown

What a horrible thing to say. You're being insulting to someone who is trying to contribute and you're totally missing the point. We try to be better than that here.
Southwest is one of the few (American) airlines that assigns boarding groups based on checkin time rather than some other factor (usually seat assignment). Also, since Southwest is the only major American airline that doesn't offer pre-assigned seating, it's the only one where getting in an earlier boarding group gets you a tangible advantage beyond having an easier time finding overhead luggage space.
I don't think that depression is down to a single biological mechanism, and there is a big difference between depression due to environment and chronic depression. But saying "holistic/dynamic" is not an explanation, but is more like waving your hands around and saying "woooo" a lot.
Yup, completely true!

And the real reason is that I fly Southwest.
A good developer should be testing for that stuff too. But hackers test these things out of curiosity, developers do it out of attention to detail. A great developer will do both :)
With all the talk of you probably getting a C&D shortly, the real coup would be to release the code that does it for free. Can't imagine they can do much against that.
The bulk of this article has been copied directly from:

http://library.linode.com/getting-started
http://library.linode.com/securing-your-server
While I don't agree with your "this isn't real racism" premise, I agree that the dysfunctions probably run deeper than that.

I'm reminded of Bob Sutton's great book "The No Asshole Rule". The actions outlined in the blog post are undeniably asshole behaviors, and shouldn't be tolerated in any civilized workplace, with our without the racial implications.
Some other factor is usually $.
There is a strong case that more tests allow you to make changes to the code with some confidence that there won't be unintended side effects. Now maybe SQLite's level isn't appropriate in most cases but that doesn't mean high levels of code coverage are bad. It can also give confidence to upgrade underlying frameworks or libraries
Or even easier use one of many StackScripts[1].

But what I would really like to see is a decent introduction to Salt, Puppet or Chef. This way people that are going to deploy their first server could easily build and rebuild the instance and don't end up retyping shell commands from a blog article.

Also a note on the default Apache setup. There are several "flavors" of the server. If you are going to host Python sites with mod_wsgi then the apache2-mpm-worker package is a lot beter choice than the traditional prefork model.

[1] http://www.linode.com/stackscripts/
I was a little disappointed by the lack of resolution. I remember seeing some of these, one with mindblowing resolution. As the article states "You can see a closeup of the statues nose" it turns out.. you can't. You can see a full-screen of the statue itself, but that's about as far as it goes. While that's impressive, it's hardly cutting edge and overselling it makes it more disappointing than just presenting it.
I'm afraid our experience is very different. I find the programming world to be full of people who will interpret guidelines like DRY with almost religious dogmatism, particularly if anyone Internet famous can be cited as the source.

Having been a mentor to many younger and less experienced programmers when they started working professionally, I have been the guy who had to clear up their absolute, literal belief in these sayings. Some people will quickly understand and accept that the world isn't as black and white as perhaps their CS course/favourite blogger/previous boss said or that they have taken rules of thumb too literally. Some never really do understand that, and their code reflects their lack of understanding and often looks like it was written to comply with every saying under the sun as its primary goal.
Uhm, those comments were not connected in the story, it was wingtips provoking the RUN DMC comment. Baggy jeans and thuggish were connected in the story, which does make some modicum of sense. If anything I would say that the skinny/wingtip == RUN DMC comment was more worrisome because it is completely out there.

Lots of rappers wear hoodies. My point wasn't that anything there was racist, just that you do get comments for dressing differently, not fitting in. Those alone don't make this racist, the other comments do.

So is it that baggy jeans are less professional looking, or a racially motivated attack on urban lifestyle and dress. It doesn't matter really, the rest of the comments provide enough of a backdrop for us to make our own conclusions, which is all this is.
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I would argue that a company that rejects a competent 50-year-old on "cultural fit" is not worth considering unless you're desperate. That's douchey even by VC-funded startup standards.

That comment says nothing about what percentage of companies are like that. I don't have enough data to know if they're common or rare.

I'd guess that the signal:noise ratio of jobs available at age 50 gets better. Ninety percent of software jobs are shitty, but I also think that companies offering shitty jobs are more likely to age-discriminate, because older people are not likely to fall into the premature emotional investment trap.
When I was five or so, my dad got excited one day and said there would be a comic in the sky and we would go see it that night. I thought that was pretty cool, and I thought about how they were going to set it up.

I'd seen searchlights many times used for advertising where you could see the beam hit the bottom of an overcast, and I figured they had a way to use one of those to actually project a comic up onto the cloud cover.

After dark, we drove out of town up to a hilltop. I was puzzled: it was a perfectly clear night, so what were they going to project the comic onto?

Then he pointed and said, "There it is!"

But it was no comic, it was just a little star with a fuzzy tail.
Thanks!!! I was feeling pretty bummed after the comments.
"I originally compiled this guide as a .txt file of notes for myself, but decided to share it in case anyone finds it useful. If you're looking for something straight from the horse's mouth, Linode [offers guides](http://library.linode.com/) that cover how to set up a new server, but some of the info is out of date."
Very cool! Can you somehow make sure, I don't have to put in all this information? For eg. if I forward the confirmation email to an "automatic checkin email id", can you pick up the relevant information and automatically check me in.
Sorry, no. This about as cut and dried as you get short of slurs (and there were slurs in the original piece, just not directed at the author).

Actually, I'm not really sure if much beyond the most extreme forms of racism actually count, according to your definition. If racist language is not in itself a signifier of racism, then what the heck is?

And at a minimum it ought to be a firing offense. Social censure is ostensibly better, but in an environment where someone defends their remarks with "whoa whoa whoa this isn't racism--- it's jokes!", censure has obviously failed.

The day when white people are a persecuted minority is the day I'll line up right there with you. But we're not even close to that point, no matter how much white dudes like to think their rights (read: privilege) are under siege.
It depends on the decompression algorithm. It's possible for that to be the case, but this can only happen if the compressed binary format is essentially a Turing-complete language, for which your decompresser is the interpreter.

I'm not aware of any data formats for which that is the case, but from a theoretical standpoint, eval(s) is a perfectly cromulent decompression algorithm. This fact is essentially the starting point for Kolmogorov complexity.

"Reasonably-sized" is actually an interesting problem in itself. If your decompresser is sufficiently advanced, you could embed a busy-beaver function, which terminates but grows faster than any computable function. I have no idea whether such functions could be expressed with less-than-Turing-complete data formats.
Markets are only efficient if P=NP. We do not seem to think that's the case.

http://arxiv.org/abs/1002.2284
Why would you turn off KeepAlive instead of setting it to a small value?
You were lied to.

There are virtually no lamborghinis that have ever increased in value over their original purchase price.

This might work if you live in a country with exceptionally high inflation - although you're still losing money (in real terms) the re-sale price might be nominally higher.

Exotic car speculation is the sport of kings - from time to time, it pays off (an orignal McLaren F1 is worth approximately double what they cost new, allowing for inflation). But plenty of 'special models' and such fail to reach icon status, and lose value rapidly.

Supercars have the steepest depreciation curves around. You would honestly do better with a portfolio of 100 sound campers than one supercar.
Having ketamine in hospital is not a recreational drug experience. There are no recreational drugs, just recreational circumstances.
Damn straight. They'll have to pry your right to emote, see baby pictures and gain acceptance from peers out of your cold, dead hands!
The case study in the article spends about $600 per month, mostly on food. That's my entire monthly budget, and my life is stationery, stable, and legal. With it, I buy: rent and utilities ($400) living with two roommates in a poor part of town; food ($100) consisting largely of bulk rice, couscous, ground beef, and other canned/dried goods; and entertainment ($100), which is largely made up of going out to eat at a cheap Chinese buffet every week or two and purchasing the occasional Steam game on sale.
> What about people setting up a server for the first time? How else are they supposed to learn?

oh wow. well, I'm kind of old fashioned, but maybe they could start with learning basics of how the internet works, what is ssh, what the hell is linux, and by then somebody will know why you need to open that wierd terminal where there is only text and no cute rounded cornered buttons.

I don't get why[1] some tutorials try to cover everything almost from 'first, turn on your computer' to 'deploy your scalable social dynamic api-driven mumbo jumbo architecture web app', and there have been a few around here. there is a place for basic education and there certainly is a place to help somebody kickstart in a particular tech when he's got the basics covered - what's the point of mixing the two?

[1] actually I do. clickity click.
"But large scale, high stress coding? I may have to admit that's a young man's game."
No, it's a stupid person's game (sure it's mostly men, but not 100%). I'm 55 and have been coding professionally since 1981 and started in school in 1973 or so. One thing I've learned for sure is that coding yourself to death is not worth it in the end.

People who want to be coding in their 50s should follow this advice. It's burning yourself out on arbitrary deadlines for meaningless business bullshit that pushes a lot of us out. A 5-year burnout, at any age, is pretty much impossible to recover from in this industry.

Programming becomes less bipolar (for lack of a better word) as you get older because you stop getting emotionally invested in things that don't deserve it, and you also become more willing to steal an education at work (thus ensuring that, regardless of what your project does, you'll be fine).
Correct. Early bird and A-List automatic checkins occur 36 hours prior to the departure of the flight. The general boarding checkin starts 24 hours prior.
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I'm on the Southwest A-List right now, but that expires in December so I'm definitely going to be using this next year. I was actually thinking about doing something like this myself but knowing me I never would have actually done it, so THANK YOU.

Just don't mention how you can add the "A-List" tag to your boarding pass to get through the fly-by lane.
These pictures are so overexposed my brain has difficulty parsing them. Detail like this is not what is expected in photography, but the subject is.

A truly great photo is not about what you found, but what is already there. http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTU4OTI3MDk4MV5BMl5Ban...
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Maybe we should try a currency based on something you have in abundance: straw men.
I agree, this is incredibly useful. Thanks!
This sounds great, but since this is using your own AWS account, there is a very serious poison pill; Glacier only lets you retrieve 0.17% of your data for free per day. Beyond that, you get charged based on your peak hour of retrieval.

How much? $7.20 per gigabyte for your highest hour (minus a negligible free allowance if you're using it in this manner).

i.e. the cost to restore m gigabytes over n hours is:

$7.20 * m / n

I'm sure Ice Box Pro will have warnings in place, so nobody will get a $350 bill by accident by restoring a 50 gig account in an hour.

But for disaster recovery, the time will come to decide between a large bill or a very slow retrieval.

Pricing details are here (though quite difficult to follow):
http://aws.amazon.com/glacier/faqs/#How_much_data_can_I_retr...
Don't feel bummed this is pretty nifty. I've been meaning to do this for a while, but you actually made it happen. :)

The only thing I was going to do different is then text me that the check in occurred and tell me what the boarding number is. It's just an FYI but would make me feel better.

(And since I work for Twilio, obviously I was going to use that. :) )
People think they are "post-racial" if they do not regularly use slurs and/or do not self-identify as racist and/or have friends or coworkers who are not white. Of course, when it comes down to it, very few people self-identify as racist, making this definition not particularly useful.

BUT it is a heck of a lot easier to paper over more subtle forms of racism by identifying racism as only the most outlandish kind, and the rest as someone being too sensitive or what have you.

A good rule of thumb is that everyone is at least a little bit racist. It's less of a problem if you're willing to admit it and work at it, but by suggesting that we are post-racial (we have a black president, therefore racism is over), white people let themselves off the hook from having to think much about race most of the time.
Having been a frequent flyer, I have noticed that Southwest's rates are no longer as low and competitive as they were in the past. Frontier Airlines here in Denver usually has lower rates and better amenities, like Direct TV and stretch seating. Too bad I have all my airline points with Southwest.
Thanks!! Awesome idea - totally - do you think people would be okay forwarding their itinerary?
I tried to get hold of him informally a while ago about his coding4health...I got crickets.

I think you can get a cream for that.
For those of you planning to host a launch party, here is a useful reference on how to make your launch party the best party it can be.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cX4t5-YpHQ
There's a karma threshold before you're allowed to downvote.
I'd think that there are a couple other tech magnates besides Jobs and Gates that Cringely could contact.
I love the idea, but besides the retrieval fees involved that you're not disclosing, I wonder if people will grasp the fact that the files they are putting into the icebox folder are not reachable with opening the same folder and looking into it—instead you need to go to a web site to find them. This is rather disorienting for a non-technical user as the way of putting files in gives a false sense of immediacy to a future retrieval availability.
I'll ask again, Hacker News. I've been on this site for three years. I've derived an incredible amount of knowledge from just being here and reading. Lately though, I'm enjoying it a lot less.

I'm not sure if my tolerance for snarky, dipshit comments like this has gone down lately, or if there are a lot more snarky dipshits on this site now. The only thing I know is that for some reason I am unable to down vote these comments - my only active recourse.

Is this a bug or is there some magic karma threshold that I still haven't hit?
It's a hell of a lot easier not to have a "versus" mentality when you are in a privileged position.

Conversely, when everyone around you can instantly see that you are different, and when you're reminded daily that you are different by mainstream culture, you'd probably have a different attitude. You're visibly, repeatedly, and viscerally reminded that you are Different.

I don't know what that's like, but it's something this particular fellow has to live with every moment of his life. That's going to have an impact on your attitude, and I'm willing to cut the guy more than a little slack.

"Can't we all get along" is a luxury cis, straight, white males have, in no small part because a lot of mainstream American culture is created by and for that set of categories.
Calendar is spelled wrong several times on that site.
Very nice! I wrote a simple python script with urllib2 and beautifulsoup to do the same thing a while back. When I was making it I noticed that the southwest servers would sometimes report slightly different times in the response headers (I'm assuming because of load balancing or something). To deal with this, I had the script start polling the check in page 5 minutes before and steadily increase the rate as time went on. I doubt it actually made much of a difference but it was pretty fun to make.
Your karma must be above 500.
I can see Buffer getting a lot of traffic via their guest posting strategy. I've seen several of their posts on HN. However, I would have a hard time imagining that these posts convert since they cover topics totally unrelated to their app. Also, I think their strategy it's generally dilutive for their brand. I recognize that startup blogs are a great way to get traffic but I'm turned off by it. Maybe I'm the only one though
Do you have any further information on that?
Could you tell me what that number is?
Unless he bought in 2006-2007. Still not frivolous...just a mistake.
John Lennon was a good songwriter and a decent singer, to compare him to Steve Jobs is utterly inappropriate.

;-) (everything is subjective and people affect other people in different ways)